Word: settlement
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...state visit to Moscow last week, Syrian President Hafez Assad joined Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev in a communiqué denouncing the "separate Camp David deal" as a "collusion arranged behind the back of the Arab nations," which would make an overall Middle East settlement "significantly more difficult." Both Assad and Brezhnev also demanded the resumption of a Geneva conference, under joint U.S. and U.S.S.R. sponsorship, which would work out a settlement based on unconditional Israeli withdrawal from all occupied territories...
...Anne Preston, a spokesman for the Faculty Staff Union (FSU), said yesterday the Union remains pessimistic about settlement. "The mediator has been chosen, but the conditions have not been agreed to by the FSU," she said...
...last month, after Smith accused Nkomo's men of slaughtering ten defenseless survivors from a civilian passenger plane shot down by the guerrillas. Discouraged U.S. diplomats conceded that the massacre had also dealt an all but fatal blow to the joint British-American plan for a peaceful Rhodesian settlement. As Nkomo has recently warned, "The only way left...
...atmosphere for an amicable settlement was further soured when N & W raised the possibility of sabotage in the derailment of 55 of its coal cars in Bluefield...
Following the provisions of the Railway Act, which was designed to prevent sudden, paralyzing rail shutdowns, the President appointed a fact-finding panel of three arbitrators to recommend terms of a settlement within 30 days. After that the Government will seek to prod both sides into an accord. If at the end of 60 days no agreement is reached, the union would be free to resume its strike. Under such circumstances, past Presidents have sought emergency legislation to avert another walkout. In 1971, for example, Congress imposed a settlement after a strike by railroad signalmen...